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Sunday, July 20, 2008 5:51 PM

Academia - VSTS/Java Interoperability Road Show: Why?

Sponsored by BB&D, Henk, Zayd and I are about to embark on an academic interoperability road show, representing SA Architect and the MVP Community.      We will be covering Team Foundation Server (TFS)< Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) and Teamprise, demonstrating the value of each environment and the seamless interoperability and integration of the three products. The intention is to demonstrate the technology and introduce the students to the environments which they will encounter...
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Sunday, July 20, 2008 7:52 AM

TFS|VSTS Course Material and Syllabus

If you are looking for official VSTS training material and courses, visit these two sites: http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/syllabi/6215APrelim.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/syllabi/6214APrelim.mspx Although this material will complement our TFS and VSTS boot camp programs at this stage, it finally creates a peg in the ground, in terms of the syllabus, and the availability of official courseware. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live...
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Friday, July 18, 2008 10:33 AM

Visual Studio Team System @ TechED South-Africa

If you are interested in TFS | VSTS sessions, then please take note of the following confirmed sessions focused on the technology at TechED 2008, in Durban: Monday August 4th What's new in Visual Studio Team System 2008 Introducing Windows, Linux, TFS, VSTS and Java working as one happy family Managing the Complete Lifecycle of a Software System – Portfolio, Project and TFS working together. Application Lifecycle Management with VSTS Name "Rosario" (Part 1 of 2) Application Lifecycle...
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Friday, July 18, 2008 8:12 AM

New TFS Quick Reference Poster - Roles and Security

The new Team Foundation Server (TFS) – Roles and Security, which looks at how TFS evaluates effective permissions, has been published to the community servers http://www.drp.co.za and http://www.saarchitect.net   in both PDF and JPG format. Please give us feedback on this latest addition to the poster family. Thanks to my co-author Eugene Zakhareyev (MVP), and reviewers Henk du Plessis (SA Architect) and Zayd Kara (SA Architect) for their contributions to this poster. Share this post:...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:15 PM

How Do I: Analyze Work Items Using Microsoft Excel?

Visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-za/vsts2008/cc721671(en-us).aspx for a great 5min video, which demonstrates the analysis of work item data using pivot tables and charts in Microsoft Excel 2007. Another great Richard Hundhausen http://www.accentient.com publication! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:09 PM

A brief journey through concurrent programming (Part 4 of 4) - Java Multi-Threading (Escalator|Lift)

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/07/11/a-brief-journey-through-concurrent-programming-part-3-of-4-java-multi-threading.aspx , where we had a brief view at concurrent programming in Java, preceded by parts one and two, which looked at Win32 and .NET concurrent programming respectively. In this last post, we will have a quick look at the escalator control system I wrote as part of the multi-threading explorations in Java. As with "all" ... oh yeah?!? ... IT projects...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 7:20 AM

TFS July Powertools Team - You are "heroes"!

As per Brian's blog , the enhancements in the July power tools pack are phenomenal. BUT ... just alone this alert editing tool is adding so much productivity, that we should all give the Power Tools team a huge round of applause:   At this stage we can also say good-bye to the subscription tool we had to love and use to create and subscribe to events to date ... Power Tools July Release "rocks". Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:32 AM

Code Coverage and Debugging

We are trying to unravel and get to the bottom of the above limitation, not allowing us to perform code coverage while debugging a test project. My MVP colleagues Brian and Neno have the following suggestions so far: Reason is probably because code coverage (just like the performance tools when choosing instrumentation) does post compilation modifications to the assemblies injecting probes thus changing the call stack. Thus the debugger cannot match up the stack frames to the PDB information during...
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:23 AM

TFS July Powertools Released!

The latest power tools release can be found here: TFS July 2008 Power Tools .  See BHarry’s blog for an overview of all the great enhancements and make sure you download, install and "power" up! The following tools are installed with the tfpt.msi package: Command line tool (TFPT.EXE) Team Explorer IDE menu additions Build Notification tool TFS Best Practices Analyzer Process Template Editor Work Item Templates Custom check-in policies TFS Server Manager TFS Users tool Alert Editor...
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Sunday, July 13, 2008 7:29 PM

TFS Power Tools (July) - A glimpse of what is coming!

The new forthcoming TFS Power Tools will make their appearance in July. Have a look at Brian’s blog for some "exciting" news: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/07/08/july-08-tfs-power-tool-preview.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Friday, July 11, 2008 9:05 AM

A brief journey through concurrent programming (Part 3 of 4) - Java Multi-Threading

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/07/05/a-brief-journey-through-concurrent-programming-part-2-of-4-net-multi-threading.aspx . Overview The similarities between Java and .NET are noticeable and in a way great, although I often have to double-read code to determine if it is now .NET or Java code, i.e. extends and package are usually good orientation indicators. Some notes ... A thread in Java is an instance of the java.lang.Thread class, which in the previous ,NET post would loosley...
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:54 AM

TFS Build - Interactive Agents

In the previous build post TFS Build "Workspace already mapped" Issue we covered a common build anomaly and pointed you to Buck's http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2007/08/14/tfs-2008-a-basic-guide-to-team-build-2008.aspx post, which is an essential read and contains a reference to an interactive UI build agent. If you would like to use a " kind of hacky way (and extremely unsupported) ", as Ed said, option to host multiple build agents on one server, you can refer to another...
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 7:26 PM

TFS Build "Workspace already mapped" Issue

If you are creating multiple build types, i.e. daily, weekly, continuous and others for a Team Project, you may have ... with all likelihood ... encountered the "workspace already mapped" and "path too long" issues using defaults when completing the TFS Build wizard and not giving the working directory much thought. There are a number of good blog posts available that discuss this topic in more detail, i.e. http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3554768&SiteID...
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Monday, July 07, 2008 8:43 PM

Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System ... core reference book!

I have just added the book "Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System", written by a TFS fellow colleague Sam Guckenheimer and Juan J. Perez, to the core pack of TFS books we carry in our toolbox and which I will be recommending and distributing to customers and at forthcoming events such as TechED. Our core TFS pack now consists of:    Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Professional Team Foundation Server Software Engineers...
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 11:27 AM

A brief journey through concurrent programming (Part 2 of 4) - .NET Multi-Threading

Continued from A brief journey through concurrent programming (Part 1 of 4) - WIN32 Threads and leeching off the Common Bits&Bytes Patterns - Overview & Singleton Pattern, Part 1 of 5 patterns post as well. The scenario is simple: we need a console application that creates a thread, which in turn creates a thread, which in turn ... in essence we should have a chain reaction of threads appearing, using a singleton class to keep track of what is going on. The code is once again simple: Main...
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